IDOLATRY:
The Drugging of the Nations
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Painted by Norbert H. Kox and William Thomas Thompson
(Copyright 2002, by William Thomas Thompson abd Norbert H. Kox)
The Colorful Apocalypse Lie
The Colorful Apocalypse
Journeys in Outsider Art
By Greg Bottoms
The Colorful Apocalypse by Greg bottoms is full of lies. Bottoms invented and fabricated quotations, and falsely attributed them to Kox and Thompson.
The words "Vicarius Filii Dei" were cropped from the left side of the painting on the cover, so that Greg Bottoms would not be found a liar when he said that it only adds up to 106, and not 666.
Below is a detail of the painting, with the Roman numerals in the name clearely adding up to 666 (in Latin the U = V).
Here is Greg Bottoms false statement about the numerals only adding up to 106:
"At the top of the painting it says, VICARIOUS, which Thompson explains is the word written on the pope's crown. Vertically down one side VICARIOUS is written again, but this time the letters are read by the artists as Roman numerals: V = 5; I = 1; C = 100. Thompson and Kox have this somehow adding up to 666 (Thompson did something similar, with the Latin word and VICIVILIID, in Revelation Revealed), though I keep getting 106, which deflates some of the conspiracy punch of the painting. Even after talking about it for several minutes, I'm still not, numerically speaking, getting it." (pp. 84-85, The Colorful Apocalypse)
Find details of the many errors in this book at : http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com/2007/03/colorful-apocalypse-journeys-in.html
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Following is the full picture of Idolatry: The Drugging of the Nations
Used as the cover for,
The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art, By Greg Bottoms
See the detail (above) of the section, of Idolatry, to which Greg Bottoms is referring in this text. In the picture you will see clearly the section of the painting that Bottoms was looking at with Thompson, while they stood before the painting at AVAM. Anyone can see the numerals do add up to 666, and that is exactly what Greg Bottoms was looking at. Therefore the only conclusion that can be reached is that he has purposely been deceitful in the writing of this book.
It is evident that he has done this to make it appear like Thompson and I are lying, and also to make us look foolish.
The Latin phrase, Vicarius Filii Dei, means, "Taking the place of the Son of God." The Latin or Roman letters transpose to, VICARIVS FILII DEI. By adding all the letters that have Roman values, the sum total is 666. You can see, that is the truth. V = 5, I = 1, C = 100, I = 1, V = 5, I = 1, L 50, I = 1, I = 1, D = 500, I = 1. Total = 666. The leftover letters without value are, F-A-R-S-E.
Do you believe that Greg Bottoms, standing in front of the painting, could only add the first three numbers?
Whether knowingly, or unknowingly, the University of Chicago Press is involved to some degree in the cover-up of Bottoms' lie by cropping the cover so that it does not contradict his statements in the book.
The picture of the cover that you see posted all over the Internet, and at the online bookstores, is not the actual cover. It looks somewhat centered, and although the Roman Numerals have been cropped from the left side, the equivalents and the sum of 666 are still present. The actual book cover jacket is cropped off-center and has eliminated completely the Roman Numerals, along with the first digit of all the three-digit numbers. The 666 no longer appears, only a 66.
The cropped cover does not make sense, because the cropping shifts the painting to one side and puts it out of balance. Therefore it is quite certain that it was not cropped for aesthetic reasons. The only apparent reason for the cropping is to hide the fact that the Vicarius Filii Dei actually does add up to 666. If this were known, the readers would see the lie perpetrated by Bottoms and would wonder if they could trust anything else he said. The validity of the entire book would be jeopardized by that one discrepancy.
Bottoms makes it sound like Thompson and I are lying about it adding up to 666, when he is deliberately lying by saying it only adds up to 106. He says that "deflates some of the conspiracy punch of the painting," which seems to be exactly what he had intended to do (with his lie). Evidently it is something he does not agree with, so he paints us to be deceivers. We have done our research thoroughly, and never paint anything that is not backed up with documentation
TRUTH ABOUT THE 666
